分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2016-07-26
摘要: Kibble mechanism drastically underestimates the production of point-like topological defects, as confirmed recently in atomic and condensed matter systems If non-thermally produced, they can be cosmological dark matter of mass 1-10 PeV or heavier If thermalized, skyrimon of mass 1-10 TeV is also a viable dark matter candidate, whose decay may explain e(+/-) spectra in cosmic rays recently measured by PAMELA, FERMI, and HESS Collaborations Models that produce magnetic monopoles below the inflation scale, such as Pati-Salam unification, are ruled out unless new annihilation mechanism for monopoles is introduced (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved
分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2016-07-05
摘要: Recent studies of precision electroweak observables have led to the conclusion that a fourth generation is highly constrained. However, we point out that a long-lived fourth generation can reopen a large portion of the parameter space. In addition, it preserves baryon and lepton asymmetries against sphaleron erasure even if B - L = 0. It opens up the possibility of exact B - L symmetry and hence Dirac neutrinos. The fourth generation can be observed at the LHC with unique signatures of long-lived particles in the near future. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2016-06-27
摘要: We study Higgs diphoton decays, in which both photons undergo nuclear conversion to electron-positron pairs. The kinematic distribution of the two electron-positron pairs may be used to probe the CP violating (CPV) coupling of the Higgs to photons, that may be produced by new physics. Detecting CPV in this manner requires interference between the spin-polarized helicity amplitudes for both conversions. We derive leading order, analytic forms for these amplitudes. In turn, we obtain compact, leading-order expressions for the full process rate. While performing experiments involving photon conversions may be challenging, we use the results of our analysis to construct experimental cuts on certain observables that may enhance sensitivity to CPV. We show that there exist regions of phase space on which sensitivity to CPV is of order unity. The statistical sensitivity of these cuts are verified numerically, using dedicated Monte-Carlo simulations.